Intel edu-tablet sales forecast slashed - supply chain whispers

Another vicious punch to Chipzilla's mobile snoot

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In another bit of mobile-market slippage, Intel is said to have cut in half the number of its StudyBook educational tablets that it believes it will sell in the next two years.

According to a Digitimesreport on Friday, Intel had planned to sell between 3 and 4 million of its "ruggedized and purpose-built tablet for 21st century education," in large part to the governments of China and India.

That, apparently, isn't happening. "Sources from the upstream supply chain" tell the Taiwanese news 'n' rumor site that the number of expected sales has been reduced to 1.6 to 2 million.

The 7-inch, 1024-by-600 StudyBook tablet, announced this April and originally rumored to include a 10-inch version, runs either Windows 7 or Android Honeycomb, and is powered by an Atom Z650processor.